Angry Former Public Servant

Two cats, one orange and one gray playing in a cat Costco warehouse toy.

Yup. We’re all Costco Executive members now

Article titled - Secretary of State Marco Rubio shot down ABC News host George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday as he pushed the narrative that President Donald Trump’s cuts to foreign aid caused many people to die. (This is false)

Of all the people, Rubio knows DAMN well that the United States is the LARGEST contributor to the Global Fund, which provides lifesaving treatment for AIDS, TB, and Malaria.

Every year we have contributed BILLIONS in helping countries get these treatments.

www.theglobalfund.org/en/government/

The insidious “obvious now” factor is that all this dialog of vaccine and Tylenol causing autism is that it’s normalizing and setting the tone of “neurodivergence is an unforgivable sin and we must not let them exist”

We are not a sin.
We deserve to exist.
We deserve love.

Thank you!

20 years ago I would never think that it was acceptable for men to get their nails done

Even after coming out, there was the extremely toxic gay dating culture of “no femme, no Asians, no Blacks, no fat” mentality

Today I said “fuck it” and went to get a manicure and select my nail polish

It appears we’ve now gone down the rabbit hole (again) of anecdotes being evidence for mRNA vaccines causing cancer. And Robert Malone with his tacky:dated tinfoil hat claiming Pfizer tampered with their safety data… (with no evidence)

I need to just make a bingo card of all the best hits

Luckily insurances are still covering for everything for the most part and providers for most folks can still administer without issues, but I would not be surprised if more challenging exceptions will come up. This group is hell bent on fumbling everything

On a basic level, the meetings were just a mess of folks unable to simply get votes/have cohesive discussions. Anti-vax tropes galore and a FUNDAMENTAL/PRE-REQUISITE lack of understanding of how our Vaccines for Children(VFC) program is aligned with ACIP recommendations. 100% “fools gold” science

If anyone has followed me back when I covered CDC’s ACIP meeting pre-trump, you’d understand that the group that is responsible for reviewing the data and making recommendation on vaccines are not THIS incompetent. Listening to their “deliberation” was equivalent to Reddit conducting a vibe check

Health plans are committed to maintaining and ensuring affordable access to vaccines. Health plan coverage decisions for immunizations are grounded in each plan’s ongoing, rigorous review of scientific and clinical evidence, and continual evaluation of multiple sources of data. “Health plans will continue to cover all ACIP-recommended immunizations that were recommended as of September 1, 2025, including updated formulations of the COVID-19 and influenza vaccines, with no cost-sharing for patients through the end of 2026. “While health plans continue to operate in an environment shaped by federal and state laws, as well as program and customer requirements, the evidence-based approach to coverage of immunizations will remain consistent.”

Regardless of ACIP’s decision this week (this is one component of the vaccines availability) AHIP has noted that health plans will continue to cover all recommended immunizations as of Sept 1 2025.

Gentle reminder to all on the following:

Fuck Elon Musk and Fuck Russell Vought

Kindest Regards,
A Former Federal Employee

P.S. - oh and fuck the rest of the lot too

Periodt

Really amazing as to how many cishet white men are suddenly so concerned about freedom of speech (democrat and republican).

Babe, when has anyone silenced you?

Not yet….

But to answer your question, I felt it went great. Towards the end I think I was sort of stretched thin and had to pull back. But the experience of chatting with folks on there has given me such great insight into vax hesitancy and communication.

It’s a huge demographic of folks who sit outside of the typical social media space. You will do amazing on there. Happy to chat if you ever need some additional insights

It was a huge untapped area of the internet where you had a lot of folks who would come in to broadcast their video games while chatting live with a chatroom. This would inevitably be a huge breeding ground for misinformation, so I positioned myself as a science communicator there

I use to be on twitch quite frequently. Towards the last 6-7 years I used it to just do something like an instagram live and host live Q&A’s to answer questions about Covid, vaccines, etc and debunk bogus science

The fluffiest handsomest orange cat

Also bucket is now jealous ya’ll are paying attention to Pebble. He asks that you must pay his toll of treats and petting sessions

A sleepy fluffy grey kitten underneath an office chair

STOP DOOM SCROLLING

Look at the fluffy baby

👀
Lots of questions here.

VAERS is a system that generates hypotheses. It is designed to be a very low threshold system for everyone, patients and providers, to submit adverse events for additional review and to generate more study.

Yesterday’s events have further cemented my mindset that folks cannot operate with nuance on the topics that need urgent addressing. We’re so focused on binary thinking, right or wrong, this or that, that we lose sight of what is actually killing us literally and figuratively as a democratic nation.

An orange cat and grey kitten are sharing a bed

An orange cat sleeping next to a grey kitten

Bucket and Pebble are now inseparable 🥺

Profiteering grifters? Pro-grift-teering? It’s sad that we have this level of evil that the English language can’t even properly capture the immensity of it

This man IS the face of the modern antivaxxer movement. Before even trump came into the picture. The damage is DONE. His actions will cost us decades of repair that goes beyond $$, this WILL kill so many.

Remember this is the same asshole who continues to “skip” on all these briefings. We literally write up a whole play by play book on how to respond to multiple public health emergencies. How much has he read? Fucking ZERO. bsky.app/profile/drne...

All this sudden anger/language on RFK pisses me off more than anything:

➡️ stop calling him a vaccine skeptic. He’s an anti-vaxxer.
➡️ he and MAHA have always made it clear on removing/side stepping scientific experts.
➡️ he has NEVER intelligently spoke about public health.

Stop. Normalizing. Him

First contact…..

Trump has been so successful in being a fucking piece of shit every day that he has gaslit us into a frenzy on seeing what his press conference will discuss (we’re all hoping the same thing)

Obvs ❤️❤️❤️❤️